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    • Age Range: 12 and up
    • Pub. Date: October 2004
    • 176pp
    • Sales Rank: 62,437

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      • Pub. Date: October 2004
      • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
      • Format: Paperback, 176pp
      • Sales Rank: 62,437
      • Age Range: 12 and up
      • Lexile: 810L 

      Synopsis

      One by one, five sixteen-year-old orphans are brought to a strange building. It is not a prison, not a hospital; it has no walls, no ceiling, no floor. Nothing but endless flights of stairs leading nowhere —except back to a strange red machine. The five must learn to love the machine and let it rule their lives. But will they let it kill their souls? This chilling, suspenseful indictment of mind control is a classic of science fiction and will haunt readers long after the last page is turned.

      "An intensely suspenseful page-turner." —School Library Journal

      "A riveting suspense novel with an anti-behaviorist message that works . . . because it emerges only slowly from the chilling events." —Kirkus Reviews

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      Five sixteen-year-old orphans of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in a house of endless stairs as subjects for a psychological experiment on conditioned human response.

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      House of Stairsby Anonymous

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      October 22, 2008: House of Stairs is a thrilling and suprising story about five-young people. It keeps you reading and I recommend to anyone who just likes reading for fun.

      This book is freakin awesomeby Anonymous

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      August 05, 2008: this book offers so much to readers of all levels plus it's absolutly fantastic. The author draws you into it and you find yourself feeling and identifing with the characters. What's more is it happens for the most part in one place but it has the same thrill of an action packed book. This is a book everyone will enjoy.


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